PLOCAN en la Asamblea General 2024 del proyecto MINKE

The headquarters in Rome of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy hosts this week the annual general assembly of partners of the European project MINKE (Metrology for Integrated Marine Management and Knowledge Transfer Network), led by the Institute of Marine Sciences from the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (ICM-CSIC) and made up of a consortium of 16 European marine research infrastructures, among which is PLOCAN.

The central objective of MINKE is to implement an innovative “oceanographic data quality” framework as a European network, identifying Essential Ocean Variables (EOV) as the key parameters to monitor and adopting a multidimensional data quality framework based in accuracy, integrity and completeness, which is crucial for ocean management and conservation.

MINKE also represents a pioneering initiative in Europe aimed at creating a new community with complementary capabilities for ocean and coastal observation. Through different integration activities, networking, transnational access and joint research, the project seeks to lay the foundations to create the necessary synergies between the different actors involved in the innovation of the quintuple helix (civil society, industry, academia, government entities and stakeholders).

PLOCAN’s involvement in MINKE is essential by contributing to the dialogue and commitment with interested parties, and particularly with the industry leader in the marine sensor sector, in order to facilitate the integration of new highly specialized components and services in the European marine data infrastructure associated with metrology.

For more information, visit project’s website.

The MINKE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 101008724.


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